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I just got Rosewater on Steam, congrats!

  A Republican incumbent would have ran on this economy with a record stock market, GDP, and relatively low unemployment.  They would have found a way to pull their usual BS on inflation, and of course their voter base and anyone leaning right wing would have ignored it.  I recall economists in 2022 and 2023 saying we were headed for a huge recession, and it didn't happen.  Most voters probably don't care about what "coulda happened", but this voter does.  Anyway...Trump will be bragging about the U.S. economy by mid-2025 like he did after taking over from Obama.

  It used to be the view that Democrats were the party of the working class and Republicans were only in it for fat cats and big business.  Unfortunately, nowadays (since Obama) I think many Americans feel that Republicans are looking out for both the working class and fat cats, while Democrats only care about educated elites and their boutique issues.

  Another hurdle is that the Democrats are boy scouts who are afraid to appear biased, while the Republicans fight dirty.  Not just their overall 2020 election nonsense, but misinformation and never conceding anything.  As an example of the latter, Biden ate it in his debate with Trump and Democrats blamed him.  Trump does a horrible job against Kamala, and naturally it was the moderators fault.  I knew otherwise intelligent people who think Biden weaponized the DOJ.  I tried explaining that Trump lied to a grand jury regarding his confidential documents case, Michael Cohen went to jail for the Stormy Daniels payoff with campaign funds, and Trump's "find me 11K votes" phone call, but to no avail.  Trump's version won even with people who don't like Trump.  Bluster, concede nothing, and facts don't matter.

  I agree with the big Dem campaign "What Ifs?" being "meh" as mentioned above.  I do think currency inflation damage, due to increase in money supply from Trump in '20 and Biden in '21 stimulus payments, and Democrats simply being an incumbent during this time won it for Trump.  If I had to choose a second reason, it would be young men (blue and white collar) feeling left behind and Trump being better at reaching them.

  I'm in North Carolina these days, and there were a surprising number of people that believed FEMA was giving money to illegal immigrants rather than using to help w/ the hurricane damage.  Disinformation works to some extent, even with the middle/undecideds, and that doesn't help either.


  I don't know how much of what he alleges to do will be done.  Trump planned to build a huge wall that Mexico would pay for and there was of course "Trumpcare"; neither happened.  I doubt there will be mass (more than 500K people) deportations because Trump should be afraid of grocery and construction cost spikes, but there will be some effort that Trump can tout.

  Congrats!  Forever Friday comes to an end!  Downloading now

  Looking through his blog posts he seemed like a very thoughtful person, in addition to everything he's done for AGS.  Vales certainly helped set the AGS hook in me - what a great character and great series!

  RIP

  I was in living in Hong Kong at the time, and used a commercial place there that did a fantastic job.  I went to the HQ office and they asked me how many thousands I wanted, and I said can you do like "20"...haha.  I ended up getting 100.  The image is actually printed on the CD.

Love that box, the side/binder art is cool!  I had one made back in 2012 when I finished my AGS game.  The style was similar to the old Atari 2600 River Raid box.




Last year I updated my game, and put it up on Steam for a buck. 

Thank you to everyone involved for putting in the time to get this done, kudos and congrats!

  I had a blast playtesting Ponch's latest!

  Be transported back in time to folksy, early 1990s Canada and take on a mythological monster of mythological proportions.

  They made my favorite off-beat adventure game of all time in "Legend of Hand" (Sequel please!), and so this was a Day 1 purchase.

  Congrats on the release, and I'll come back and leave a review after playing.

Great job, the new site looks awesome!

  I just bought a copy earlier today, and look forward to really digging in when I get some time off next month.  I saw a very positive Polygon review.

Congratulations on the release!

  Background and characters look awesome.  I've seen that Eddie character in a graphics pack, which I almost bought for a game I'm working on.

  Not too many AGS side-scrollers, sounds like a fun challenge!

 

[how the vaccine is a poison designed for population control.]

Which brings me to my rather harsh point that two major Flat Earth leaders, Rob Skiva and "Flat Earth Fokker", have both died within the last month from Covid after releasing many videos on YouTube about the "Plandemic" and how the vaccine is a poison designed for population control.

Bill Burr has a great rebuttal for that idiotic conspiracy theory.  "Why would you kill off the obedient ones?"  I mean there are 137 reasons why its stupid, but I like that point.

The truth is boring, and stupid people feel smarter when they "know the real truth".  I started to get very worried about the weaponization of misinformation when the PizzaGate thing happened.  Sadly, I think its only going to get worse.

  All I know him from was my backing (100 bucks) the never-finished Kinky Island game.  It worked out though, as I'm now way more careful on Kickstarter and Indiegogo, and made good choices otherwise.

Kudos, I'm not surprised it was tricky programming this game in AGS.  I love Boulderdash, used to play it on my Atari 800xl back in the day, and this looks Boulderdash-ey.

  Bought Strangeland on Steam and beat it earlier today.  Fantastic game with awesome graphics (not surprising, its Pinback), and an interesting story that held my attention.  Its not a long game, and I found it to be just the right amount of time in that super dark world.

Great games abound, congratulations to all the nominees!

  This looks really cool, and great job on the beautiful pixel art.